Quonset

When I arrived in Pleiku, about half the buildings in the hospital complex had been abandoned, and most of the others housed the officers and staff of the 146th Signal Company. The abandoned buildings had mostly been dwellings, near as we could tell, but they'd already been stripped of everything easily taken. Over the course of my year, we took away a good share of what was left--plywood walls, for the most part--and used that to build flimsy "rooms" in what had been the hospital's wards.

Never were the abandoned buildings pretty. This place was pretty typical.

Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971.